That's not very accurate.  Most activites that are safe from OWPVP are SOLO ACTIVITIES.  Such as bartering, fishing, cooking, questing, farming etc.

You say it's reducing BDO to rivalry, but then admit "bdo which is made intentionally to be toxic".  You literally destroy your own argument within a few sentences.

GOOD MMO's create positive game experiences and promote a healthy relationship between players.  BDO DOES NOT do any of that.

The most common words you will hear from a stranger is DFS or TAKEN!!!!!!

Because as YOU stated bdo is intentionally made to be toxic.  A lot of people wish it wasn't, but that's what Pearl Abyss created.

I never saw any mmo that wanted to promote such things.

As is plainly evident above there is sadly an element of immaturity that finds itself to the forums also. Thankfully there are nice players in the game - they're just a little harder to find at times. I know it can be arduous, but try not to be turned off by the rude & impolite you'll encounter here and in-game.

Awesome.  I can ignore/block/mute people I don't like.  What I can't stand is some ahole telling me what I can and can't say to people.

This is a very good sign!  I'm still patching, but I can't wait to get in and play.

LOL!  That's kind of what I thought, too.

It's like when people complain, "Twitter is a sewer!"  And...?

I have, but it was back in the day of Ultima Online - the gray shards that were privately run.

And the ones that were like that?  SUCKED.  They necessarily had a smaller player base (think 4 - 14 players), because the more sensitive the vages of the players, the more you have to crack down on "aberrant behavior".  That automatically means you are going to appeal to a smaller player base.

If someone isn't using a hack or an exploit, then as someone who has run MMORPGs, you ignore the behavior, especially if there are in-game methods for players to block/mute other players.  This really is some tyranny-by-tattle-tale bs right here.

I love the community, I have played for over 4 years now. I have only had good experiences wherever I go and whoever I talk to. You may meet some annoying people along the way who want to interrupt your grind but at the end that is just a small blip in a vastly welcoming guild environment and community.

PSA. this is my opinion yours may differ and that's ok.

That's probably you never played any MMO, including BDO. Those games are social by nature and unlike what propaganda spreaders such as Liartteo claim, they do promote socializing at their very core.

BDO makes no exception to this rule, however the special thing about it is that being social isn't forcefed into your throat like in many games. You got to opt in to social circles, activities

The "anti" social part those liars often mention usually are just part of a very different overall picture that you get when you take time to understand how a game works on a social level.

For example, they will say oh look at server chat it's bad, thus BDO is bad. This kind of short-sighted logic only works until players figure out guilds, private chats, group chats, and basic filtering features.

They will also tell you that PVP is a deterrent but they also conveniently fail to mention how most of the playerbase don't experience it unwillingly. They will also lie about how often you face it and they of course won't teach you how to avoid it.

As Woifus coreectly stated there is a big nice, friendly and welcoming community. At least on NA server, I can't talk about EU as I don't play on it. My guild is proudly part of it along with all the other nice guilds that are our friends.

Lastly, I will just take one example out of BDO illustrating how MMOs do actually make incentives for people to socialize is Archeage and its mentor system, at least in vanilla, not sure if newly released version still features it.

FFXIV, GW2, ESO 1/20th of the things that fly here would get your account permenantly banned in those games. In ESO if someone reports you teabagging them on video. You get suspended, on multiple offenses you get your account perma-banned. In FFXIV if you just talk in a generally degrading way, will get your account banned.(Oh yeah there are many ACTIVE GM'S patrolling FFXIV even at 2 AM in the morning on NA DataCenters) In GW2, ESO, and FFXIV if you troll a RP event 1st offense is a long vacay from the game. If you show any form of bigotry in any of these 3 games 2nd offense say bye bye to your account. In FFXIV they more than likely strip your account on the first offense depending on how bad it was.

It's easy to be ignorant of how things are outside of the cancer box. When all you've know your whole life is the cancer box. It's the same like people who never leave the hood in their home town their whole life. Thinking everywhere else in the world is just as bad. But those of us with actual experience know much better.

To be fair though, I think PvP brings out the worst in people simply because of its fundamental nature, that being one person wins and the other loses.

Especially so if it's not something friendly or consensual to boot, like say, a random ganker killing an AFK guy traveling as an example, it probably would bring out the worst in people. The AFK guy would likely be upset upon getting back and not exactly be beaming with positivity. And the ganker probably did it either to troll, grief, enjoy killing those weaker than him, whatever. Not exactly a nice person and likely to be toxic. 

I don't think it's the defining factor either, but I think it plays a huge part for sure.

Out of all the online games I've played in the past decade, I can only think of two where the community was just plain awesome/welcoming as a whole. Lord of the Rings Online back in the day was fantastic with a mature, friendly community for the most part. The only toxic parts I saw was in the PvP zone. And more recently, Deep Rock Galactic, which is a co-op shooter that downright encourages teamwork and cooperation.